[GregoryFul]

Another totally useless government agency.

[NonValueAdded]

Confidential to FEMA and first responders: Add this to all emergency plans ... gasoline fires DO cause steel support beams to fail. Next time, don’t let it burn.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“His brother, Ruben Mosqueda, 44, an artist living in San Francisco, said his brother has been sober for more than a decade and now works as a drug and alcohol counselor with a Hispanic health organization.”

Well this makes a good headline, but does his past behavior have any relationship to the accident?

You could argue that with the risk posed by driving these materials, that no amount of time is enough after criminal activity.

One thing is for certain, lawyers will get even wealthier with this case.
And truckers insurance premiums higher or less available.

[antiunion person]

As a truck driver that drives on the portion of the highway that collapsed on Sunday, all I can say is we (truck drivers) are screwed. Everything one truckers has a wreck, the CHP looks at the rest of us like we are all involved. Now, they (the CHP) will have just another reason to stop and fine drivers for something not revelent to this accident. Everyday, car drivers cut off and stop in front of 18 wheelers and expect us to be about to stop in fewer than 6 feet. Between the load and the rig, we weigh up to 80,000 pounds. 40 tons. I’m not saying the driver of the gasoline rig was not at fault for this accident but why is it people in cars and cops don’t give the trucker the space and respect he deserves?? I’d love to hear from other drivers in FR to see if their opinions are the same as mine.
Do any of you in California who drive cars know that truck drivers cannot (CANNOT) go to traffic school for moving citations?? I consider this a double standard and not all at fair. We pay the biggest fines, the most taxes, have to pass more tests, and yet we are always at fault for something that happens on the freeways.
Lastly, don’t forget, if you have something like food, gasoline, clothes, etc.... a truck driver handled it. It has to go by truck to get to the grocery stores. Food is not grown in the store rooms in the rear of grocery stores.

[proudCArepublican]

As a Bay Area driver, I hope they go after the company. However, everytime something happens we get it in the shorts. I can see an increase in the gas tax, sales tax etc. The Bay Bridge project has cost enough now this on ramp. I just see $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ signs in my mind. and the poster that said wait for the Trucks coming from Mexico who’s laws are not like ours I can only vision it.

[Marysecretary]

“Can’t get steel like we used to?” Well, folks, take it out of our country, break the back of the industry in America and what do we expect? China could care less if they sell us their steel. Cheez. Don’t we EVER learn?????

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

President Bush ordered the bridge wired with explosives as soon as Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and ex-Mayor of Oakland Jerry Brown became AG of California. Caltrans and the CHP know for a fact there was no truck anywhere near the scene. And the actor playing the truck driver is a SAG member who begged Billy Bush to star in Cousin George’s next blockbuster, in order to control the world. Even Arnold could not resist a minor role, since they got the idea from Arnold’s movie “True Lies”. As we speak, Cheney is in a bunker preparing to unleash his next attack on global warming, operation Mount Shasta.

[Thinkin' Gal]

James Mosqueda

James Mosqueda

Of all the surnames in the world...

Say, anybody know the name of the taxi driver?

[papasmurf]

"It's reprehensible," said Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, who chairs both the Assembly Transportation Committee and the Joint Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security. "Someone with that record has no business driving hazardous materials on our highways."

Someone with no knowledge of the law, who can't even spend the 3 minutes it takes to look it up, has no business representing the people and making libelous claims on said people.

He was just another dumb supertrucker.

Typical DUMocrap.

:O)

P

[webheart]

He cautioned that a scarcity of steel resulting from a building boom, in China and India could slow reconstruction.

"We can't get steel like we used to," Weiss said.

We should be thanking the driver for exposing this for us. We need to know about these things. As for the drug and crime history, it raises an eyebrow, but we need to be able to forgive people for their past mistakes. We can put some things behind us. Sounds like he did his time and went straight. He was working for a living, and nobody died.

[taxesareforever]

He cautioned that a scarcity of steel resulting from a building boom, in China and India could slow reconstruction.

Yeah, they (especially China) gotta keep "building" their military up. Wouldn't want to slow that down.

[BurbankKarl]

And who was it that relaxed those DHS background rules?

[Diver Dave]

KOVR13 News (Sacramento - CBS affil) at 10 pm had an udate on the driver.

True, he does have prior criminal convictions, however, reporter stated that during his latest incarcerations, he turned his life around, accept Jesus Christ as his Savior, and has turned from his old ways.

His pastor in Woodland had praise for him and his character as well as did his next-door neighbor.

I’ll go along with the thinking that this was just an accident - nothing more, nothing less.

He will remain hospitalized for burn treatment for six more days. I’d be willing to suggest that given the hour of the accident, he might possibly have been cut-off by a drunk driver.

[arizonarachel]

I thought it was shady that he walked away from the accident, called a cab and went to the hospital instead of calling 911. But...that’s just me.